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2022-01-05 at 7:19 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ People don't even read the reams of incredible garbage you post. All they do is scroll right over it. If you can't post your opinions in your own words, nobody is interested, especially when you are constantly using sources with zero credibility, which is 99.99% of what you post.
But gee, you and Shlomo always seem to be quick to post soon after one of my posts.
My, isn't that curious? -
2022-01-05 at 7:16 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
Originally posted by POLECAT live in 71 minutes
This video is done for scholarly review purposes to understand what attorneys are taught and how it may negatively affect populations and what happens when we actually use real lawful sources, used by government, to test the theory of attorneys. David Jose and attorney Sam Rosado, licensed in two states, go head to head to see what their understandings of law actually are and who actually can document what they say. You will be blown away by this discussion that last a few hrs and realize that the People really do have the power to stand in law, with facts, and that government and attorneys may have called People names and shamed them for what was simply, true law, that the servants in government and attorneys were not taught, though it exist in their own books and scholarly materials! To learn how to stand up to attorneys and judges face to face as you see David Jose do here, please go to:
WWW.restoremyrepublic.com
You also believed those two other unimpeachable Republican lawyers, Rudy Guiliani and Sidney Powell.
"COME ON, MAN!" as Joe would say. -
2022-01-05 at 7:12 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2022-01-05 at 7:07 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
Originally posted by Technologist Oh, like you always post the other side of a story🙄. Don’t act like I did something wrong.
Yeah, all these pussies bitch and moan and groan about the articles I post from legitimate news sources but never seem able to refute them.
Their only defense seems to be to plead stupidity (TL/DR) or to name call.
Pathetic, mind-controlled minions.
If they want their side presented, they should present their own legitimate evidence. Instead, all I see is ranting and raving or conspiracy theories or cartoons or whackadoodles on videos. -
2022-01-05 at 5:56 PM UTC in What are you doing at the moment
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2022-01-05 at 5:52 PM UTC in Realizing how fucked up my life has been.Use your newfound insight to make your world, and the world for those following you, better.
It seems you drew the short stick in the game of life from the onset. My great-grandfather migrated from Ireland and worked his life digging ditches for the gas company. My grandfather didn't do a whole lot better. My dad retired from mid-level management for Ma Bell.
I feel myself blessed to have had the parents I did.
Where do you see yourself in your family's yet-to-be-written story?
Use this time to think about your future and the future of what you want those to follow you will become. Take a deep look at why you are as you are and how who you will be to those who follow. -
2022-01-05 at 4:56 PM UTC in James Webb Telescope To Launch Tomorrow---To Infinity And Beyond!Associated Press
NASA nails trickiest job on newly launched space telescope
By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA aced the most complicated, critical job on its newly launched space telescope Tuesday: unrolling and stretching a sunshade the size of a tennis court.
Ground controllers cheered and bumped fists once the fifth and final layer of the sunshield was tightly secured. It took just 1 1/2 days to tighten the ultra-thin layers using motor-driven cables, half the expected time.
The 7-ton James Webb Space Telescope is so big that the sunshield and the primary gold-plated mirror had to be folded for launch. The sunshield is especially unwieldly — it spans 70 feet by 46 feet (21 meters by 14 meters) to keep all the infrared, heat-sensing science instruments in constant subzero shadow.
The mirrors are next up for release this weekend.
The $10 billion telescope is more than halfway toward its destination 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away, following its Christmas Day send-off. It is the biggest and most powerful observatory ever launched — 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope — enabling it to peer back to almost the beginning of time.
Considered Hubble's successor, Webb will attempt to hunt down light from the universe's first stars and galaxies, created 3.7 billion years ago.
“This is a really big moment," project manager Bill Ochs told the control team in Baltimore. "We’ve still got a lot of work to do, but getting the sunshield out and deployed is really, really big.”
Engineers spent years redoing and tweaking the shade. At one point, dozens of fasteners fell off during a vibration test. That made Tuesday's success all the sweeter, since nothing like this had ever been attempted before in space.
“First time and we nailed it," engineer Alphonso Stewart told reporters. -
2022-01-05 at 4:36 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sA former president in the crosshairs: Jan. 6 committee puts Trump on notice as U.S. marks riot anniversary
Kevin Johnson and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
If Donald Trump was looking for direction in the special House committee’s investigation into the deadly Capitol attacks, the former president now has an unsettling roadmap.
In a series of public appearances a year after the deadly insurrection, panel leaders have put Trump on notice that they have gathered evidence calling into question whether he defaulted on his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
While his supporters were laying siege to the Capitol, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the committee’s co-chair, said Trump was passively watching the violence unfold on television from his White House dining room, indifferent to pleas from his own family that he rise to stop it.
And the alleged inaction, Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., suggested, could have perilous—even criminal—consequences.
"If, in the course of our review, we find something that we think warrants review or recommendation to the Department of Justice... we will do it," Thompson told ABC’s This Week. "We are not looking for it, but if we find it, we will absolutely make the (criminal) referral."
The ominous assessment comes just six months after the panel started its work. While a handful of witnesses have sought to resist the committee demands for information and testimony—former White House political strategist Steve Bannon and former chief of staff Mark Meadows among them—more than 300 others have submitted to interviews while thousands of records have been turned over to committee investigators.
For his part, Trump has repeatedly questioned the investigation's legitimacy, referring to the panel as the "unselect" committee while still making false claims that the 2020 election was "rigged."
“We hope to be able to tell the story to the country so that they understand it isn’t just about that one day, Jan. 6, but all that led up to it, and the continuing danger going forward,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a panel member, told CBS’ Face the Nation.
Last month, Trump asked the Supreme Court to block the House panel from obtaining documents that might provide a fuller picture of the White House's real time response to the assault. Trump’s lawyers, Justin Clark and Jesse Binnall, have argued the information is protected by executive privilege and that Congress should be limited in its access to presidential records.
A federal appeals panel has ruled that a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection should get access to Donald Trump’s presidential records.
A decision is pending in that high-stakes dispute, but lawmakers have been pursuing information and testimony on separate tracks, signaling that they have already reached into the former president's inner circle.
Some of the most potentially damaging assessments have come from the committee's two Republican members, including Cheney.
"The committee has first-hand testimony that President Trump was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching on television as the Capitol was assaulted, as the violence occurred," Cheney told CBS' Face the Nation Sunday. "We know that that is clearly a supreme dereliction of duty... we've certainly never seen anything like that as a nation before."
Cheney said family members, White House staff and lawmakers pleaded with Trump to take action as the riot intensified.
"We know his daughter — we have first-hand testimony — that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to please stop this violence," Cheney told ABC's This Week, saying Trump's refusal to call a halt to the violence represented a "dereliction of duty."
Last month, Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a committee member, said the panel would examine whether Trump broke the law in his efforts to obstruct or impede Congress's certification of the 2020 presidential election.
"That's obviously a pretty big thing to say," Kinzinger told CNN.
But he said the Jan. 6 committee, which is investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol and the events leading up to it, would likely be able to determine that by the time its work is finished.
"By the time our report is out, (we will) have a pretty good idea" of whether Trump violated any laws, Kinzinger told CNN. "Nobody... is above the law. Nobody. Not the (former) president. He's not a king," he said.
The Biden Justice Department already is pursuing a criminal contempt case against Bannon, who was charged in November; a decision on whether to charge Meadows is pending.
Both have refused to cooperate, arguing that their communications with the former president are shielded by Trump's claim of executive privilege, prompting House votes to hold each of them in contempt and refer the cases to federal prosecutors.
Bannon, who was in contact with the former president during the run-up to Jan. 6, is charged with refusing to appear for a deposition and produce documents to the committee. Each count carries a maximum of one year in jail, as well as a fine of up to $1,000. A trial has been set for July 18.
Steve Bannon turned himself in to the FBI on contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena.
Meadows, meanwhile, provided some documents to the committee before refusing to testify under subpoena. His lawyer, George Terwilliger, had urged the panel not to pursue contempt charges because Meadows was under orders from the former president to keep his communications confidential.
But Thompson, the committee chairman, said Meadows refused to testify after providing 9,000 pages of documents to the panel. Those documents included texts from lawmakers and Fox News personalities, urging the former chief of staff to push Trump to call off the mob.
The House voted in favor to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 attack.
"Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home," Fox News host Laura Ingraham wrote to Meadows. "This is hurting all of us. He (Trump) is destroying his legacy."
On Tuesday, the committee requested the voluntary cooperation of one Fox's personalities, Sean Hannity, referring to him as a "fact witness" and indicating that he "had advance knowledge regarding President Trump’s and his legal team’s planning for January 6th."
In addition to Bannon and Meadows, a number of other former close Trump advisers have received subpoenas, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn and lawyer John Eastman.
Flynn reportedly attended a Dec. 18 meeting in the Oval Office during which participants discussed seizing voting machines, declaring a national emergency and invoking certain national security emergency powers, according to the committee. Eastman authored a memo aimed at challenging the 2020 election.
Any determination on whether Trump's actions – or inaction – that day rises to criminal conduct, would be up to the Justice Department. But Attorney General Merrick Garland has repeatedly declined comment on whether Trump's role in the Jan. 6 assault is part of Justice's far-flung investigation into the assault, which has so far resulted in charges against more than 700 people.
The committee, meanwhile, is expected to reveal more of its findings during a series of public hearings in the next few months. Schiff, the California congressman, outlined a potentially sweeping hearing agenda that would examine efforts to overturn the election, Trump's pressure campaign aimed at local election officials and the events leading to the Jan. 6 attack.
"What we expect to do is to lay out what we've been learning for the American people," Schiff told CBS' Face the Nation. "We have gotten tens of thousands of documents and have hundreds of witnesses, so we're trying to get information in various means and forms... But, of course, it's the hope of Donald Trump and his acolytes that they can delay until they can deny justice." -
2022-01-05 at 3:45 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2022-01-05 at 3:44 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sCBS News
Trump cancels January 6 press conference
Kathryn Watson
Former President Trump has canceled a January 6 press conference he was scheduled to hold at his Mar-a-Lago home, he announced in a statement Tuesday.
Trump had planned to reiterate his unfounded claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election on the one year anniversary of the assault on the U.S. Capitol. The assault followed a rally he held in Washington, D.C., and weeks of him falsely asserting the election was rigged. The former president said he'll address the issues he would have discussed on January 6 at a rally in Arizona on January 15.
"In light of the total bias and dishonesty of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the January 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and instead will discuss many of those important topics at my rally on Saturday, January 15th, in Arizona—It will be a big crowd!" Trump said in an email message.
In his statement, the former president asserted — without evidence — that the House committee investigating the Capitol riot is engaged in a coverup and asked why it was not instead investigating "the fraud of the 2020 Presidential Election." Multiple investigations, including one by Trump's own Department of Justice, have found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
The former president's press conference would have come the same day President Biden will deliver remarks to mark the anniversary of the attack, during which he is expected to condemn the violence of January 6 as an attempt to overturn democracy. White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday said the president will address "the truth of what happened, not the lies that some have spread since, and the peril it has posed to the rule of law and our system of democratic governance." Psaki said the president will also commemorate the members of law enforcement who protected the Capitol that day.
Three more law enforcement officers on Tuesday sued the former president over the events of January 6. that Trump often touted his support for law enforcement during his presidency. -
2022-01-05 at 7:08 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sFact check: 5 enduring lies about Capitol insurrection
By Daniel Dale and Marshall Cohen, CNN
The Capitol insurrection was based on a lie about the 2020 election. And for a whole year now, the insurrection itself has been lied about.
Donald Trump supporters' violent attack on the Capitol has been the subject of a dishonesty campaign that began amid the fog of January 6 and escalated even as the facts became clearer. Trump, some right-wing media figures and some Republican members of Congress have mounted a sustained effort to rewrite the history of that deadly day.
They have falsely claimed all of the rioters were unarmed. They have falsely claimed the people at the Capitol merely held a "protest" against an election they falsely claimed was fraudulent. They have falsely claimed the rioters were welcomed into the Capitol by police officers.
They have falsely claimed the riot was orchestrated by left-wing groups or the FBI. And they have falsely claimed nonviolent rioters are being jailed as "political prisoners."
Here is a fact check of five of the most enduring lies about January 6.
Lie: The rioters were completely unarmed
Trump and some of his allies continue to claim that all of the people at the Capitol on January 6 were unarmed.
In a December 21 statement, Trump called January 6 a "completely unarmed protest." Similarly, in a tweet on December 17, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wrote, "One of the biggest holes in the lie about J6 being a planned insurrection is that all the people there were unarmed. Anyone with half a brain knows that gun owners only leave their firearms at home when they don't feel the need to carry a gun or are obeying the law."
Facts First: It's not even close to true that all of the people at the Capitol on January 6 were unarmed -- and the claim is still false even if it is specifically about guns. People who illegally entered Capitol grounds during the insurrection were armed with a wide variety of weapons, including guns, stun guns, knives, batons, baseball bats, axes and chemical sprays. The Department of Justice said in an official update last week that so far "over 75" people charged in connection to the attack "have been charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon."
We may never get a complete inventory of the concealed weapons the rioters possessed on January 6, since nearly all of the rioters were able to leave the Capitol without being detained and searched. But prosecutors have alleged that some of the people present at the Capitol were armed with guns, as were some other Trump supporters who traveled to Washington for January 6.
Mark Mazza of Indiana has been charged with crimes including possession of a firearm on Capitol grounds; he has pleaded not guilty. According to the Capitol Police, Mazza accidentally dropped his loaded revolver during a struggle with police on a Capitol terrace. He allegedly told investigators later that if he had visited House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that day, "you'd be here for another reason."
Guy Reffitt of Texas has been charged with crimes including illegally carrying a semi-automatic handgun on Capitol grounds; he has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege Reffitt "specifically targeted at least two lawmakers -- the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and then-Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell -- whom he sought to physically remove or displace from the Capitol building." And police allege Christopher Alberts of Maryland was arrested trying to flee Capitol grounds on January 6 with a loaded pistol; he has pleaded not guilty.
Mark Ibrahim, who was an off-duty special agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration at the time of the riot, has been charged with crimes including carrying a firearm on Capitol grounds. Ibrahim, who has said he was later fired by the DEA (the DEA would confirm to CNN only that he no longer works there), was photographed that day displaying what appeared to be a handgun. He has pleaded not guilty.
In addition, Lonnie Coffman of Alabama, who pleaded guilty to weapons charges in November, admitted that he had carried two loaded pistols in Washington on January 6 and that a truck he had parked blocks from the Capitol contained additional loaded guns, Molotov cocktails and other weapons. Cleveland Meredith Jr., who pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Pelosi and was sentenced to 28 months in prison, drove from Colorado to Washington with a rifle and handgun that were found in his trailer outside a Washington hotel. The FBI said Meredith had told agents he had tried to get to Washington on January 5 but ended up arriving late on January 6.
Lie: The rioters were merely protesting a 'rigged' election
Trump called on his supporters to come to Washington on January 6 for a "wild" protest against President Joe Biden's victory, which Trump falsely claimed was fraudulent. During his rally speech on the morning of January 6, Trump pushed that election lie, directed supporters to march to the Capitol and urged them to "fight like hell."
After the insurrection, Trump continued to repeat the election lie for months -- and adapted it to minimize what had happened at the Capitol. In an October statement, he claimed that the "real insurrection" was the 2020 election and January 6 was simply a "day of protesting." (He also made similar claims later in the year.)
Facts First: Both parts of Trump's claim are obvious lies. The election wasn't rigged and wasn't fraudulent; Biden won fair and square; there was a tiny smattering of voter fraud that was nowhere near widespread enough to have changed the outcome in any state, let alone to have reversed Biden's 306-232 victory in the Electoral College. And the insurrection of January 6 -- in which approximately 140 police officers were assaulted and the peaceful transfer of power was violently interrupted -- involved thousands of alleged crimes; it was, very clearly, no mere protest.
"This was not a peaceful protest. Hundreds of people came to Washington, DC, to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power," Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the DC District Court said last January. Howell added in October: "The rioters attacking the US Capitol on January 6th, as part of a large mob, were not mere trespassers engaging in protected First Amendment protests; they were certainly not tourists. And I say that again and again because there still seems, in some areas, to be a debate about that issue."
Lie: The rioters were invited into the Capitol by police
A common refrain from January 6 rioters, and some of their Republican defenders, is that they were welcomed into the Capitol by police officers.
Trump said in a book interview in March that "the Capitol Police were ushering people in" and "the Capitol Police were very friendly. You know, they were hugging and kissing." The claim has been echoed by Trump supporters. For example, Trump-endorsed Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake declared at a Trump rally in October that the people being held in jail over the Capitol attack "were invited in by Capitol Police."
Facts First: The claim that the rioters were invited into the Capitol is false. Again, about 140 police officers were assaulted while trying to stop the mob from breaching the Capitol. There were hours-long battles between police and rioters near some entrances. CNN obtained footage from police body-worn cameras showing how dozens of officers engaged in hand-to-hand combat with rioters in a desperate effort to keep them out of the building.
There are plenty of instances where rioters waltzed into the Capitol without a fight, but only after they had stormed past barricades and, in some cases, even stepped through broken windows. In some areas, police were so outnumbered by the mob that they retreated, stood aside or tried to politely engage with rioters to de-escalate the situation rather than fighting or making arrests, but that is clearly not the same as welcoming rioters into the building.
Since we don't have video of every single encounter between police and rioters, it's theoretically possible that some tiny number of officers did invite rioters in. The Capitol Police announced in September that three officers were facing discipline for unspecified noncriminal "conduct unbecoming" that day, while three others were facing discipline for other policy violations.
But no evidence has publicly emerged to date of even one officer inviting a rioter into the Capitol. And even if a few isolated incidents emerge in the future, it's clear that this was not a widespread or systemic occurrence as Trump and others suggested.
Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said on CNN in September: "The officers that we have investigated and disciplined, the cases that we investigated, they run from minor infractions to officers making very poor judgments for more serious misconduct. But this notion that the Capitol Police were somehow allowing these folks into the Capitol, inviting them in, helping them, just simply not true."
Lie: The jailed rioters are nonviolent political prisoners
One of the most prevalent counternarratives about January 6 is that a large number of nonviolent people who were present at the Capitol are being unfairly prosecuted by liberal zealots at the Justice Department, and that these nonviolent people have now become "political prisoners" while awaiting trial in jail. Such claims have emerged as a rallying cry among a small but vocal cohort of Trump loyalists in the House Republican conference.
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar claimed in July that jailed rioters who had supposedly spent time in solitary confinement "are not unruly or dangerous, violent criminals" but are "political prisoners who are now being persecuted"; he suggested that there are "nearly 200" nonviolent Capitol participants behind bars. And the pro-Trump group behind September's "Justice for J6" rally said its event was meant "to bring awareness and attention to the unjust and unethical treatment of nonviolent January 6 political prisoners."
Facts First: This "political prisoners" narrative is false. The vast majority of the 700-plus people charged in the Capitol riot to date were released shortly after their arrests. Only a few dozen were ordered by judges to remain in jail before trial, and most of those defendants were charged with attacking police or conspiring with far-right militia groups.
It's true that the conditions are poor at the Washington jail where incarcerated rioters are being held. And it's obviously unpleasant for anyone to live behind bars. But the small subset of January 6 defendants who are currently in jail are there only because a federal judge ruled that they are either too dangerous to release or pose a flight risk. The decision to keep them incarcerated was not made by Biden's political appointees or any other Justice Department officials.
A few rioters have claimed in court that they are the victims of politically motivated prosecution because they support Trump. Federal judges, including those appointed by Trump, have rejected these arguments.
Lie: January 6 was a false flag attack
Before the Capitol was even cleared of rioters on January 6, some prominent Trump supporters started to try to deflect blame -- claiming that left-wing Antifa, a loose collection of self-described anti-fascists, was actually behind the violence.
Such "false flag" theories -- that the violence was secretly orchestrated by Trump's opponents in an attempt to make Trump look bad -- never went away. And the theories have expanded to include claims that the violence was orchestrated by the Black Lives Matter movement or even by an arm of the federal government itself, the FBI.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has promoted false flag theories, focusing on the FBI, both in his own remarks and in his revisionist documentary series on a Fox streaming service in November. Carlson has claimed on his show that government documents showed that "FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol on January 6." Former Army Capt. Emily Rainey said in the documentary (and in a trailer Carlson tweeted out): "It is my opinion that false flags have happened in this country, one of which may have been January 6."
And Trump himself has given oxygen to the theories, claiming in a December interview with ring-wing commentator Candace Owens, "You have BLM and you had Antifa people, I have very little doubt about that, and they were antagonizing and they were agitating."
Facts First: The insurrection at the Capitol was not a false flag. Just as it looked on January 6, a mob of diehard Trump supporters stormed the building. They did so after Trump urged supporters to come to Washington and then, as we noted above, made a speech urging them to "fight like hell" and to march to the Capitol. The rioters' allegiance to Trump has been exhaustively documented in court proceedings and in their social media posts and media interviews.
Though there are thousands of pages of court documents stemming from criminal cases against January 6 rioters, no Capitol riot defendant as of the end of 2021 had any confirmed involvement in Antifa or Black Lives Matter groups. (One defendant who filmed the riot had expressed support for Black Lives Matter but was disavowed in 2020 by BLM activists, some of whom suspected he was a provocateur connected to the political right.) By contrast, hundreds of Capitol riot defendants were confirmed to be Trump supporters -- and some were members of far-right extremist groups. Members of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys have been charged with conspiracy regarding January 6; some have pleaded guilty.
Carlson wrongly described the court documents he inaccurately claimed were a smoking gun about FBI operatives organizing the attack; you can read more about that claim here. While it is entirely possible that some of the Capitol rioters were secretly serving as informants for the FBI -- The New York Times reported in October that a member of the Proud Boys who had entered the Capitol on January 6 was an FBI informant -- the presence of a few FBI informants among the estimated 2,000-plus people who illegally breached the Capitol would not make the entire mob assault an FBI-orchestrated "false flag" operation.
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, vice chair of the House select committee investigating the insurrection, said on Fox News in November that there is no truth to claims that January 6 was a false flag perpetrated by "deep state" liberals trying to set up Trump supporters.
"It's the same kind of thing that you hear from people who say that 9/11 was an inside job, for example. It's un-American to be spreading those kinds of lies, and they are lies," Cheney said. -
2022-01-05 at 6:52 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sBusiness Insider
Days before the Capitol attack, Sean Hannity tried to persuade Trump to abandon his January 6 strategy and accept defeat, texts show
mloh@businessinsider.com (Matthew Loh)
The January 6 committee has revealed new texts that Fox News host Sean Hannity sent to the White House.
They show that Hannity had early concerns about former President Donald Trump's January 6 plans.
In one text, he wrote he was "worried about the next 48 hours" the night before the rallies.
Several days before the Capitol riot, Fox News host Sean Hannity sought to deter former President Donald Trump from trying to use January 6 to overturn the election results, according to texts revealed Tuesday by the House committee probing the insurrection.
The texts indicate that Hannity, a prominent supporter of the former president, held direct knowledge about Trump's strategy for the day of the electoral vote count and harbored concerns toward the plan, the committee said.
"I do NOT see January 6 happening the way he is being told," Hannity texted then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on December 31, 2020, according to a letter sent by the committee to Hannity asking for his cooperation with their investigation.
Hannity advised Trump to instead move to Florida, announce that he would "lead the nationwide effort to reform voter integrity," and "watch Joe mess up daily."
"We can't lose the entire WH counsel's office," Hannity texted, referring to Trump's White House Counsel's Office.
His messages suggest that Hannity believed that the counsel's office had concerns about the legality of Trump's January 6 strategy, committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson and vice-chair Rep. Liz Cheney wrote in their letter.
On January 5, the night before the Capitol riot, Hannity also texted persons not named in the letter, saying: "I'm worried about the next 48 hours."
Additionally, he texted Meadows the same night: "Pence pressure. WH counsel will leave," likely referring to Trump's push for former Vice President Mike Pence to join him in contesting the election results.
The January 6 committee further mentioned that Hannity texted Meadows and Congressman Jim Jordan in the days preceding Biden's inauguration, warning that Trump should avoid pressing his claims about the election.
"Guys, we have to clear a path to land the plane in nine days. He can't mention the election again. Ever. I did not have a good call with him today. And worse, I'm not sure what is left to do or say, and I don't like not knowing if it's truly understood. Ideas?" he wrote in the text, per the letter.
Last month, the committee revealed another set of texts from Hannity to Meadows, which showed that the Fox News host implored Trump on January 6 to ask rioters to leave the Capitol building and stop the insurrection.
Hannity's lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said the committee's request for Hannity to cooperate in their investigation "would raise serious constitutional issues including First Amendment concerns regarding freedom of the press," according to Axios, which first reported on the request. Sekulow did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Meanwhile, Trump on Tuesday canceled a planned January 6 press conference to be held at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, and said he would instead deliver his public remarks at an Arizona rally on January 15. -
2022-01-04 at 6:34 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sWhat ever happened to all the many guarantees that Rump was getting reinstated?
Or...your guarantee to leave if he wasn't, WEASEL? -
2022-01-04 at 6:26 PM UTC in Chili
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2022-01-04 at 5:10 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sSays the head whackadoodle.
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2022-01-04 at 5:05 PM UTC in ChiliActually, chili looks like soul food.
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2022-01-04 at 4:48 PM UTC in The New Epstein Island is space, and it's been proven today.Couldn't you be arrested by every country whose space you flew over? Jurisdiction isn't restricted to the ground level, I think.
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2022-01-03 at 10:25 PM UTC in Chili
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2022-01-03 at 10:22 PM UTC in Chili^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Has got a face for radio!
